Tag: environmentalism

It’s the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day.  With the corona virus still keeping us indoors, it seems the earth itself is healing too.   Here are some great food-for-thought quotes about our relationship to Earth.

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   “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” Mahatma Gandhi

2. “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” Khalil Gibran
3. “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Henry David Thoreau
4. “Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.” Gary Snyder
5. “It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” Neil Armstrong
6. “Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.” Jacques-Yves Cousteau
7. “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” David Brower
8. We knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard.” Chief Luther Standing Bear
9. “We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.” LeeAnn Taylor
10. “Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.” Zoe Weil
11. “What have they done to the earth?
    What have they done to our fair sister?
    Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
    Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
    And tied her with fences and dragged her down” Jim Morrison
12. “If you really want to remedy the earth, we have to mend mankind. And to unite mankind, we heal the Earth. That is the only way. Mother Earth will exist with or without us.”  Suzy Kassem
13. “Life is a dance between heaven and earth, the ebb and flow of life.” Maurice Spees
14. “The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.” Kurt Vonnegut
15. “Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.” Ron Garan
16. “Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.” Isaac Marion
17. “When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there’s only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules.” Carl Sagan
18. “We’re reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we’ve placed on her, if we don’t lift the burden ourselves.” Steven M. Greer
19. To define perpetual growth on a finite planet as the sole measure of economic well-being is to engage in a form of slow collective suicide. To deny or exclude from the calculus of governance and economy the costs of violating the biological support systems of life is the logic of delusion.” Wade Davis
20. “From the Moon’s surface, the Earth is but a tiny, blue teardrop in the inky blackness of space.” Stewart Stafford

Happy Earth Day!